Gaetano Bresci

Gaetano Bresci (10 November 1869-22 May 1901) was an Italian anarchist who assassinated King Umberto II of Italy in 1900.

Biography
Gaetano Bresci was born in Coiano, Tuscany, Italy on 10 November 1869. He moved to the United States to work a weaver in Paterson, New Jersey, which had a large Italian community, and he founded an anarchist newspaper there. He was paid only $15 a week despite working very hard, and he made several contributions to his paper despite his meager pay. After the Bava-Beccaris massacre on 6-10 May 1898, Bresci decided to return to Italy to take part in the movement opposing King Umberto II of Italy, who had decorated General Fiorenzo Bava-Beccaris for his role in the massacre. On 29 July 1900, he shot the king four times while he was visiting Monza, and he was captured by the guards. Since capital punishment was banned in Italy, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, and he either killed himself in prison or was killed by the guards.